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Viewfinder: Anti-Semitic Vandalism in a Jewish Cemetery in France

A man walks by graves vandalized with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France, on February 19th, 2019, the day of a nationwide march against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: A Hanukkah Reception at the White House

President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Karen Pence attend a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on December 6th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Pacific Standard Staff

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (right) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier light Europe's largest menorah during a public lighting ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 2nd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

Viewfinder: Celebrating Hanukkah in Berlin

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (right) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier light Europe's largest menorah during a public ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 2nd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Sarah Goodman, a Queens resident, participates in a candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue on the steps of Queens Borough Hall on October 29th, 2018, in New York City.

America Responds to Anti-Semitic Violence (in Photos)

The Pittsburgh massacre wasn't the first—or last—act of anti-Semitism in the past week.

Emma Sarappo

A meeting of hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan circa 1920.

Social Justice

How the Pittsburgh Massacre Fits Into America’s Long History of Anti-Semitism

Violence driven by racial or religious hatred is as American as apple pie, according to a cultural anthropologist who has studied the white-power movement.

Tom Jacobs

Vigil participants hold candles and sing a Jewish prayer in front of the White House on October 27th, 2018, during a vigil for the victims of the Tree of Life Congregation shooting.

News in Brief

To Discuss the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, We Have to Discuss Trump

In his two years in office, Trump has done plenty to legitimize views previously considered too extreme for political discourse—and that, in turn, has opened the door for political violence.

Jared Keller

Viewfinder: A Vigil in Pittsburgh for Victims of the Synagogue Shooting

People arrive for a vigil at the Allegheny County Soldiers Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 28th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Hasidic Rabbis prepare to pose for a group photo on November 19th, 2017, during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, in front of Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Hasidic Rabbis at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries

Hasidic Rabbis prepare to pose for a group photo on November 19th, 2017, during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.

Pacific Standard Staff

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017. Several thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked the main entrance to Jerusalem as part of a series of demonstrations against serving in the Israeli military.

Social Justice

Viewfinder: Protesting the Draft in Israel

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

A man prays in front of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish community center during the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist bombing attack that killed 85 people and injured 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18th, 2017.

Social Justice

Viewfinder: Jewish Mourning in Argentina

A man prays in front of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish community center during the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist bombing attack that killed 85 people and injured 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff